Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

'Serenity'


Natter 74: Ready or Not  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2016 8:27:44 am PST #15147 of 30003
brillig

Apparently right angles are passé in modern office buildings, so several offices--all of which have glass walls--are trapezoids, many hallways become narrower or wider without reason, and the windows need to stick out from the walls in angled bays. Bah.

ION, my customer is complaining that his hard drive is just too small at 180 gb. Which, in this day and age, is small, but I remember two floppy disks, one for program and one for data.


Zenkitty - Feb 10, 2016 8:36:18 am PST #15148 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Apparently right angles are passé in modern office buildings, so several offices--all of which have glass walls--are trapezoids, many hallways become narrower or wider without reason, and the windows need to stick out from the walls in angled bays.

Wow, I think that would mess with me real bad.


Dana - Feb 10, 2016 8:36:42 am PST #15149 of 30003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Aaron Sorkin is adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage. My Twitter timeline has already exploded with walk-and-talk jokes.


Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2016 8:41:55 am PST #15150 of 30003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It's amazing that Harper Lee suddenly changed her mind and allowed her novel to be adapted for the stage, after all these decades of being against it.


-t - Feb 10, 2016 8:45:42 am PST #15151 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Apparently right angles are passé in modern office buildings

I don't have much in the way of right angles in my house, but that's because soil subsidence is uneven. Might be better if it looked like it was on purpose? Hard to say.

They made a movie of TKaM but not a play? Huh.


Steph L. - Feb 10, 2016 8:53:29 am PST #15152 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Chris Christie: LOSER.

I have the requisite GIF from Hamilton running through my head here.


Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2016 8:57:12 am PST #15153 of 30003
brillig

Wow, I think that would mess with me real bad.

There are also intermittent three-quarters height freestanding walls, because remarkably, human beings need to divide space into smaller, workable units, and those walls are starting to wobble if you lean or bump into them.

And the reactionarily rectangular cubical set up divides this style-forward space up into awkward leftover areas that can't have anything done with them. Dead chairs tend to accumulate there.

I love architecture. I love creativity in architecture. But function comes first (I'm looking at you, Le Courbusier!)


-t - Feb 10, 2016 9:01:25 am PST #15154 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

See, if your office space is basically a warehouse the cubicles fit very nicely. We're very symmetric. Lacking in windows, but symmetric.


Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2016 9:10:16 am PST #15155 of 30003
brillig

Oh, I love the windows. I'll cut anyone who tries to take my windows away.


Connie Neil - Feb 10, 2016 9:42:09 am PST #15156 of 30003
brillig

Speaking of windows, I can almost see the freeway! No signs of eldritch monsters who may have previously inhabited the fog, but they could be hiding. In some nook in my office building.